Liquid fuels :An Energy Problem Within The Energy Problem

Runge, H. C.

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Liquid fuels :An Energy Problem Within The Energy Problem

Runge, H. C. (Corresponding author)FZJ*

1988
Kernforschungsanlage Jülich, Verlag Jülich

Jülich : Kernforschungsanlage Jülich, Verlag, Spezielle Berichte der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich 465, 10 Bl., Anh. (1988)

Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/13438

Report No.: Juel-Spez-0465

Abstract: The Energy Problem - as we sence it today - is no longer the threat of resources: it is rather the question how the energy providing community will be able to provide the service expected of them today and even more so in future, viz.- GRAPH 1: - the refinement of technologies applied so that a maximum benefit will be derived from energy carrier use, - the achievement of economics, at business level as at national levels, - the observance of ecological goals, at local level as well as on a global scale, and - the fulfillment of societal expectations by providing the service in a compatible manner. If we now look at liquid fuels as o n e component of the energy spectrum we should do it with the foregoing aspects in mind. In our days liquid fuels count for nearly 40 per cent of all commercially provided primary energy, and nearly all liquid fuels consist of petroleum products. It appears unthinkable for our civilization to do without liquid fuels: petroleum products are the basis of our petrochemical industry; traffic and transport in the air, on land, and on the sea depend on them, and no other fossil energy carrier would be of similar utility as a source of heat. Thus it does not wonder that IIASA's Energy Systems Program Group lead by Prof. Wolf Häfele, in their study "Energy in a Finite World" completed atthe end of 1979, devoted so much thought to this complex. The team recognized that by 2030 "the oil era would not be over. The world would be moving fromthe petroleum era, to the unconventional fossil era" (Energy in a Finite World, 1981, p. 555). It was recognized that this transition would not pose problems as far as the resource base is concerned: conventionally producible and non-conventional.hydrocarbons combined constitute a very vaste resource indeed. It was - and still is - much more the question of when, where and in which context of the international energy economy such transition will progress. [...]

Note: Paper presented at the IIASA Conference 1988, Laxenburg, Austria June 14 & 15, 1988

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